Mark Andruss

Mark Andruss began his now defunct performing career at age 13, when he appeared as part of a duo with an 11 year old in Oklahoma City coffeehouses performing Kingston Trio and Limeliter covers. His partner, Jonathan David, wisely ditched him, and later, as professional musician John David, became the “fourth Limeliter” during their revival from 1981-1994.

Mark did go on to become the first student in Oklahoma history to win a total of six vocal solo medals in his three year long junior high career at regional and state singing contests. Not content, he then sang as Curly in his high school’s performance of “Oklahoma!,” to mediocre reviews. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is a music critic!

His interest in folk music was revived when he met his wife-to-be Valerie, who involved him in the early 1980′s in both Missouri Valley Folklife Society and Crosscurrents Culture Inc. Mark is currently co-recording secretary for MVFS, and Treasurer for Crosscurrents. He also is a folk programmer with Valerie on the Foolkiller Folk program on KKFI 90.1 FM, and is the Chair of the Programming Committee of the station.

In real life he works at Assurant Employee Benefits, a division of Fortune 500 company Assurant, Inc., a specialty insurer, where he is Vice President, Corporate Development, in charge of the division’s merger and acquisition activity and its government relations activity, and has other responsibilities in the area of product management.

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Programmers of "Foolkiller Folk" want to share the music they love with the rest of the community and share historical aspects of the music also. They want to help broaden our listeners’ knowledge of all kinds of folk music from all over the country, from the pre-war era to now.